athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
The Anti-Awards

24 rankings. Every one is the true extreme of a real measurement — there is no worst city, only cities magnificently bad at one specific thing.

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The weather6
The Sauna You Can’t LeaveThe Bedroom That Never CoolsThe Umbrella EconomyRain, By The MetreSixteen Thousand DaysThe Year Without a Window
The hours it keeps6
The Cinderella ClauseThe Early Bedtime AwardThe Sunday Ghost TownThe Breakfast DesertThe Great Lunch VanishingThe Part-Time City
Getting out5
The Great Escape IndexHardest City to Leave (In a Hurry)The Domestic BubbleThe Hibernating AirportThe Perth Meridian
The ground and the sky4
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇫🇮 Finland · metro 57k · 367 venues mapped

Lahti

Where Lahti places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 139 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇫🇮 Helsinki 📖 99 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Lahti does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink367 places mapped
10:00–21:00
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9%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands164 places mapped
07:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture127 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
160
umbrella days a year
35.3 m
of rain since 1981
11
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1674.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
19.3 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
13,083
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLahti RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.2% 208 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Barry 9.2%🇬🇧 Birmingham 9.2%🇫🇷 Bourges 9.2%🇳🇴 Drammen 9.2%Lahti🇦🇹 Linz 9.2%🇺🇸 Lynn 9.2%🇯🇵 Nagoya 9.2%🇨🇿 Pilsen 9.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Ko Samui 70 h🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 70 h🇵🇱 Krakow 70 h🇲🇾 Kuching 70 hLahti🇳🇮 León 70 h🇹🇬 Lomé 70 h🇲🇽 Mazatlán 70 h🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.7% 355 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Segovia 11.8%🇨🇭 Winterthur 11.8%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 11.8%🇨🇦 Kitchener 11.7%Lahti🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 11.7%🇳🇴 Oslo 11.7%🇨🇿 Pardubice 11.7%🇫🇷 Angoulême 11.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Gouda 1.8%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 1.8%🇹🇷 Izmir 1.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 1.8%Lahti🇺🇸 Mansfield 1.8%🇧🇷 Niterói 1.8%🇸🇰 Trnava 1.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 1.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.1% 200 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Cinco Ranch 3.1%🇺🇸 Fairland 3.1%🇳🇿 Hamilton 3.1%🇸🇪 Karlstad 3.1%Lahti🇪🇸 Logroño 3.1%🇯🇵 Matsumoto 3.1%🇺🇸 New Haven 3.1%🇭🇺 Pécs 3.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 83.8% 146 of 1,704 🇲🇿 Maputo 84%🇨🇱 Santiago 84%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 84%🇰🇪 Ngong 83.9%Lahti🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 83.7%🇷🇸 Novi Sad 83.7%🇬🇧 Hastings 83.6%🇺🇸 Provo 83.6%

The same questions are asked of the 126 cities with a written profile, where each one gets its method and its full standings: kitchens open past midnight, hours open per week, open before 8 a.m., vanish at lunch, shops open on sunday.

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